Organizing for power : building a twenty-first century labor movement in Boston / edited by Aviva Chomsky, Steve Striffler.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Chomsky, Aviva, editor.

Striffler, Steve, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Labor movement--Massachusetts--Boston--History--21st century.

Labor movement.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (217 pages)

Place of Publication:

Chicago, IL : Haymarket Books, 2021.

Summary:

Boston's economy has become defined by a disconcerting trend that has intensified throughout much of the United States since the 2008 recession. Economic growth now delivers remarkably few benefits to large sectors of the working class - a phenomenon that is particularly severe for immigrants, people of color, and women. Labor in 21 st Century Boston explores this nation-wide phenomenon of "unshared growth" by focusing on Boston, a city that is famously liberal, relatively wealthy, and increasingly difficult for working people (who service the city's needs) to actually live in. Labor in 21 st Century Boston is the only comprehensive analysis of labor and popular mobilizing in Boston today, the volume contributes to a growing body of academic and popular literature that examines urban America, racial and economic inequality, labor and immigration, and the right-wing assault on working people.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781642596458

1642596450

OCLC:

1245667982